Archive for : August, 2009

I recently did a quick favour for Stuart from Crown Brewery in Sheffied and in return I ended up with a few of his ales, including something that excited me quite a lot – Ring of fire, a 10.3% Chilli beer. In case you didn’t know I’m also a bit of a beer geek and […]

I wouldn’t usually buy pre packed chicken but as they were on offer in the supermarket and they had one of my favourite sauces on them i thought i would give them a go. They came straight out of the packet and went straight into a pre heated oven, i decided to serve when with […]

This month has been really busy in the garden, there has been lots to harvest, the first chillis have been ripening nicely, the sweet peppers have been growing like crazy and i now seem to have a glut of tomatoes. I have mainly been using the tomatoes in salads and sauces as well as giving […]

I’ve just finised reading an excellent write up of the levens hall chilli festival, unfortuantley work and time conspired against me and i couldn’t get there so i have had to make do with reading peoples reports on twitter! @quirkytraveller posted her report today, and what a great report it is, i especailly love the […]

I was a little bit worried when i saw this in the supermarket, because as much as i love chilli, I’m not sure i want to rub it all over myself, despite that i was taken in by the description on the back of the bottle and purchased some for the princely sum of 89p […]

Before i give you the recipe to this i would like to say that there seems to be a lot of discussion over what should and shouldn’t be in a burrito so this is my preferred recipe, whether its right or wrong i don’t know, what i do know is its hot, spicy, packed full […]

I absolutely love slow roast pork, this is more for a Sunday roast type of roast pork but i’ve also got a great one for a goulash style recipe. It takes ages to cook but that’s the beauty of it, it’s also really really cheap and very very tasty. Ingredients 1.5kg piece of pork shoulder […]

Sorry about the lack of photos here, i did them for a family BBQ at the last minute. They are very tasty and have a distinct Indian flavour for a change! Ingredients: 1tsp turmeric 1tsp garmasala 1tsb chilli powder 2 red chillis(sliced) 2 cloves garlic (crushed) 800g lamb mince salt pepper 1tsp coriander seed (crushed) […]

I had a few things lying around including some of the chillis i had picked last week. So i went all masterchef mystery bag and came up with this. I’d usually use breadcrumbs to coat a chicken Kiev but we recently had some veggie burgers that were coated in crushed tortilla crisps so thought id […]

One of the first places I head for when I go to the supermarket is the deli, not only do they have loads of lovely olives but they also often have cheese with some sort of chilli in it. This week the cheese of the week is Jalapeño and garlic cheddar, I wasn’t quote sure […]